Lower bounds are probably a good thing, there unfortunately are too few of those around. How far can one go down before something pushes them back up. Hmm well it goes pretty low down, that has been proven before, but seeing as we had all those problems back in school where we essentially proved that a journey through the center of the Earth would in essence take you through the core and down to the other end and back up and then keep into this beautiful kind of oscillation and keep oscillating. I guess there is a long way to the other side of the Earth, kind of unimaginably long expanse of space to go down, and it obviously gets deeper each time, or memory is transitive, it remember what it must but forgets all that it can. I spent many days wanting to get into this one math program at Williams, even though they are not supposed to accept too many freshmen, well it’s one of the few math programs outside of Brown which allows people like me to participate, and well even though I will retry next year, it would have been awfully nice to get through this year. I interviewed for this job I really really want, I am hoping I get that, knowing my luck with such things the chances of that happening are kind of small, so whatever, it’d be nice though. Cingular screwed up my cellphone bill, and even though they are looking into it, it’s not a happy thing, to be faced with things like this. The person who used to help me out at the bank left, where for I don’t know, I called up earlier today and he was gone. Oh well so people come and leave, sort of obvious, but hmm he was a nice person, and one of the few strangers who helped me learn about parts of how to function here.

French movies are great fun, this is one of those times when I wish I could understand French and not have to rely on reading subtitles. Subtitles are cool, but are sometimes wrong, it be kind of weird to watch people act and read subtitles, somewhat like being in a disconnected world, where the visualization is done for you as you read a book. I have watched two so far, I liked the previous one better, it was better filmed, and seemed more thought provoking even though it didn’t have a clear ending (a friend mentioned that he felt the French were snobbish for not having clear things), and was filmed really well. The one today was more like a Canadian-French movie, shot like a B-grade Hollywood movie, translated into French, good fun, but not very thought provoking, think Blade minus the martial arts, on crack. I might end up going to another one tomorrow (note time has little meaning in this entry, it’s been in the works for days), we shall see.

As we sat through brunch today, three of us, without most of the usuals, in a place farther away than normal, remembering this is the weekend, but we all are semi-drowning with work, we discussed matters of importance, about the patterns and things which seem to be changing. It is interesting that in their we talked about everything from “big L liberalism” to journals, to how Brown seems to follow this weird schedule with people being really calm and partyish through the first month, being jittery and academic through the second month, then eventually taking a break (Thanksgiving or Spring Break), and then going back to being extremely jittery as they are asked to start back up and do unbelievably large amounts of work, after nearly a week of near 0 work, interesting.

I am trying to get physics work done, and while it would be unfair to say the work itself isn’t interesting, I must say reading the damn book is downright boring. For one MIT could have worked towards replacing its physics series, making them more vibrant and interesting, or at least someone should work towards producing more interesting books on relativistic dynamics. He who wears bright yellow pants, says it is impossible to find better books on the topic, ‘coz while they were written in the 60s and are hence übber dry, they present a lot more than any recent book. Does it not worry people that very few attempts have been made to replace the tons of books written back in the 60’s, what was with the damn 60s anyways, every book I seem to have as a textbook (including my lin al text), and even some of my favorites, seem to have emerged out of nowhere in the 60s, and then there’s a wide gap with no new, interesting, funny books which can act as textbooks emerging, and while I know the 60s was supposed to be one of the major eras when American colleges underwent changes which would eventually make them whatever they are today, and that thanks to the Cold War, the race to the moon, and all those tiny details which would make Physicists write about their work, and get people interested in Physics, and all that, but surely the past 45 years have seen new developments, and changes in writing style, significant changes in how math is formalized (or so the man from the land of the kangaroos assures us), and I think it would be really cool if there was another wave of people writing really cool textbooks. Ideally I would say a 45 year gap is rather long, people change in something like 20 years, new trends emerge, what was funny 20 years ago, is now vaguely interesting, and while there are classics which transcend time, new books are always appreciated, and think of all the money someone could be earning, for the next 45 years… Hmm here’s how you determine the age of a book, “As the first Sputnik sped around the earth…”, not satellite, but Sputnik, we are back in the days when the Soviet Union still existed, when there were funky things going on, and when James Bond did not go to North Korea for fun…

I just got an e-mail telling me I didn’t get the job I mentioned earlier in this entry, hmm makes sense, I am not really annoyed, but it would have been awfully nice to have the job, and I am pretty sure I was qualified enough. Oh well… Applications to the house are due tomorrow, I don’t know how well or badly that would work out, I am no longer sure which I want, hmm well I guess being indifferent helps, whichever way it may go, seeing as people are stressed out, it would be nice to know what it’s supposed to be. Hmm day after that’s when we find out about that, darn. So many things to go wrong, so few things which are going right, I wonder how the end of this week will come around, or how would all other weeks end. Darn, so many things to go wrong, so few things which seem to be going right, hmm…

Dating simulators, that is exactly what I need to write. Hmm perhaps dating simulators are actually supposed to help the CS department, not sure, but I definitely know I need to write one of these, my grades depend on it… But seriously think about it, what would inspire you to ask an entire class full of people to write a dating simulator. Hmm first I read about how my previous CS professor gained his name in part from an old girlfriend, and then I am asked to write a dating simulator, the CS department is surely an interesting place, with a “scintillating dating life”.

While I know I am late with this, this is the thing I shall end with. Jef Raskin is dead, the guy who designed the original Mac interface, the one I spent some days playing with in my dad’s office died a little over a week ago, and umm I ended up buying one of his books from the bookstore, while looking for a copy for my friend, and I guess it fits in. Even though I have heard of the famous disagreements between him and Jobs, and while I know I would probably have never considered shifting to a Mac before the advent of OSX, thar however was not because of any design issues, I think the design of the interface was perfectly OK pre-OS X, it’s just that it was hilariously hard to find software for Macs back in India, and umm without the internet, ya well without the internet…

This now goes online, shall I title it, maybe not, far too many things are covered in here, I am sure no one would care about not having a subject…

Ze Panda